Unintelligent Scepticism.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 1 December 1922, Page 428

Unintelligent Scepticism.

We have always felt that modern scepticism 'ahd irreligion are, generally speaking, simply- unintelligent. This view is strongly expressed by Sir Henry Jones- in his latest book, "A Faith -that Enquires." He writes :•— ' ■ "The looker-on at Religion, . "the secular minded sceptic, must recognise his limits. ... A great deal of the scepticism of the present day is not worthy of respect. Men reject what they have never tried and condemn what they have never seriouslyreflected upon. They have been engaged with other things than those which are spiritual and which concern the making of their manhood. The affairs pf Religion are as foreign to them as the computations of higher mathematics, and their judgment of the former has as little value as their knowledge of the "latter. They have not tried it m practice ; they do not know its history; they are riot within reach of . advanced arguments either for or against Religion. Their morality is traditional, and the whole movement of their thoughts is iri another' region and on another plane than that of Religion. And many of them being prosperous m a worldly sense, they are not m the least aware how contemptible they are m a higher and deeper sense. ' ' — ' 'Bombay Diocesan Magazine." --• - ■ .